Online censorship has ramped up significantly in the past few years. We've all seen it. For instance:

• Seemingly innocuous social media posts getting removed for reasons that make no sense, or for no reason at all

• Veiled and not-so-veiled threats about what you are allowed to say online without fear of losing your …

Now that GitHub has been hacked/DDoS'd, you might find it difficult to access the course exercise files for some of my IT training courses. I've begun adding some of these files to GitLab, and you can find them at https://gitlab.com/benpiper

Feel free to contact me if you can't find what you're looking for.

Despite the proliferation and availability of information, good information is hard to come by. Finding the right data is often a matter of quickly dismissing sources of bad data, allowing the cream to rise to the top. To speed up this process, I've created the following list of sources that I've found to consistently …